Texas and Barnes "mutually agreed to part ways" after 17 years, the school announced Sunday. Barnes won at least 20 games in 15 of his 17 years but hadn't advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA tournament since 2008.

Sources told Yahoo Sports that Marshall already had signaled Alabama not to waste its energy putting together a whopper offer for his services, because he had his eyes on Texas. So this conceivably could be a short courtship – if anything can get done simply in Austin.